06 JAN 2017: A World Cruise for $10 a day! Sounds incredible but it was true—at the dawn of modern cruising 90 years ago. Europe was finally pulling itself back together from the devastation of the War to End Wars and the stock market was soaring to unheard-of values.
Meanwhile, shipping companies had a lot of their liners laid up in the winter months when people preferred not to brave crossing the North Atlantic. They started offering extended journeys to the Caribbean, South America and even all the way around the globe.
And the exotic voyages seem like the bargains of all time if you look at the ads nearly a century later. But let’s do a reality check, shall we?